Cornering the market: Restriction of retail supermarket locations

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 905-922

  Cameron, Nairne ^a   Amrhein, Carl G ^b   Smoyer Tomic, Karen E ^c   Raine, Kim D ^b   Chong, Lee Yen ^b  

^a ALGOMA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); LOCATION DECISION; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC GOODS; RETAILING;

ALBERTA; CANADA; EDMONTON;

EID: 78249265994     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0915     Document Type: Article

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